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14 February 1812

A
BILL

For the Erection of a PENITENTIARY HOUSE for the
Confinement of Offenders, Male and female, who
have received Sentence of Transportation within the
City of London and County of Middlesex.

Note.—The Figures in the Margin denote the Number of the Folios in
the written Copy.

1Whereas an Act passed in the Nineteenth year of thePreamble.
Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, " An Act to ex-
" plain and amend the Laws relating to the Transporta-
" tion, Imprisonment, and other Punishment of certain
" Offenders:"

And whereas another Act passed in the Thirty-fourth year of the
Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for erecting a
" Penitentiary or Penitentiary Houses, for confining and employing
" Convicts:"

And whereas Penitentiary Houses have not yet been erected; but
certain Lands and Premises have been purchased of the Most honourable
the Marquis of Salisbury, in Tothill Fields, and a Conveyance thereof
made to Jeremy Bentham Esquire, under the Authority of the said
last recited Act; and the same thereby became vested in the sad
Jeremy Bentham, as Feofee, for the purposes of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient that a separate Penitentiary House should
be built, for the purpose of confining Offenders convicted of transport-
2able Offences within the City of London and the County of Middlesex
only, or capitally convicted within the said City and the said County,
and pardoned on condition of being transported, upon the said Ground
and Premises so purchased and vested in the said Jeremy Bentham as
aforesaid:

May it therefore please Your M A J E S T Y,
That it may be Enacted; And be it enacted by the K I N G's Most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
56. A Spiritual

Identifier: | JB/118/456/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-02-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	456	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	a bill for the erection of a penitentiary house for the confinement of offenders, male and female, who have received sentence of transportation within the city of london and county of middlesex
Category	printed material	Number of Pages	15
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	(2-14)
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem] kg 1808]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1808
Notes public		ID Number	39510
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